“Civilization without its appliances is weaker than barbarism.”
The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests (1863), ch. ix: Via Mala.
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The Canoe and the Saddle
The Canoe and the Saddle is a novelized adventure memoir by the American author Theodore Winthrop . It vividly describes Washington state’s landscape and natural resources as well as the tumultuous relationship between Winthrop and the Native American people he interacted with.
